The Great Escape: Film And The 1930s
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Author: Ronald G. Perrier
Published 1995. 413 pages, paperback.Professional discount for teachers.
This text workbook is intended for use in a genres film course for the period of the Great Depression. Students write notes from lectures directly in the book in spaces provided.There are many study guides and analysis forms for students to use for homework assignments. The book is an ideal guide to the period with the following topics listed for each year: Quotations, Radio and Print Advertisements, Popular Music, Broadway Theatre, Popular Novels, and Major Events. Spaces are left for other topics for each year: Fact and Figures, News Headlines, Literature and the Arts, Science/Medicine/Technology, Sports, Fads and Fashions, Transportation, Economics and Politics, Daily Life, and Disasters. The instructor can provide information on these topics in class lecture and/or students can be asked to research selected topics. The first year treated is 1927; this is done so as to compare and contrast the relative good times in America prior to the Crash of 1929 and the "Hard Times" after 1929.
In addition to the treatment of each of the years 1927 through 1939 mentioned above, the book also contains these sections:
1. Film Genres: Individual chapters on the major film types prevalent in the 1930s including horror, gangster, musical, romance, and comedy.
2. Interviews with people who lived in the 1930s.
3. The listing of all Academy Award nominees and winners from 1927 through 1939.
4. An extensive, selective list of films released for each year. Also, an alphabetical listing of the major films released from 1927 through 1939 with major actors, director and a brief descripton of the plot. (This is helpful for students in selecting films which they are required to see outside of class.)
5. The Appendix contains several film analysis forms which students complete for films they have seen outside of class as well as selected films seen in class. One form is a guide for conducting an interview with a person who lived in the 1930s.
The concept of the book is to provide the background to the decade so that the study of the films is not done in a vacuum. That is, the influence of the real world upon the movies can be examined.
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